Nitin Ganatra, OBE, is a British actor best known for his long-running role as Masood Ahmed in the iconic BBC soap opera EastEnders. He joined the show in 2007 and became a household name during his 12-year tenure, portraying the charismatic and complex patriarch of the Ahmed family. Ganatra's performance earned widespread acclaim, including the British Soap Award for Best Onscreen Partnership alongside Nina Wadia, who played his on-screen wife, Zainab Masood.
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, born 1988, is a Southend-on-Sea-based writer and artist. She holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, London, where she occasionally teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies. Her new book Code: Damp - An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms was published this winter by Repeater Books, on the 40th anniversary of Leonard Rossiter’s death. Her essay ‘Alcoholics Hieronymus: The Tavern’s Numinous Conviviality in Machen and Spare’, is out soon in Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen (join up!). Her ongoing research is distributed across printmaking, spoken word, performance, and cassette releases, and she writes for publications including Darkside, The Leigh Times and The London Drinker.
Stanley Schtinter has been described by Sight & Sound magazine as 'the witchfinder general of cultural complacency.' His recent projects include Schneewittchen (IFFR; BFI, 2025), Last Movies (Tenement Press; ICA, 2023-24) and Important Books [or, Manifestos Read by Children, 2021-22] (Whitechapel Gallery, 2021-22).
